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Weekend Links: The Dark Side of Facebook Memes

From @b_wildered on Twitter (follow him for all kinds of bizarre and often hilarious things, although this one is quite haunting and beautiful): all the Earth’s traffic — road, air, and ship - are featured in this very cool video of the globe.
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Feeling nostalgic? How about playing Minesweeper? I'll admit, I was terrible back in the day and I'm even worse now. Any champs out there?
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Tuesday's Google doodle was in honor of Gideon Sundback, celebrating his revolutionary design: the zipper. Unfortunately, his contemporaries weren't so sure about it at first.
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Take a look at where it all began (and by "it" I mean all of my links to space pictures): the History of Space Photography exhibition.
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A very interesting article on the dark side of Facebook memes that includes mention of quite a few macros that I bet you have seen recently ...
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Nerd Alert: Hackers convert MIT building into a giant Tetris video game. And it is glorious.
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Another entry to the Annals of Nostalgia (and to take a break from brain activity for a moment): these Forgotten Couples Of The '90s remind us that love is a fleeting thing (and in some of these cases, a very, very strange and hardly believable thing).
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You guys don't know how many animal pictures and videos I skip over during my link-hunting so that this does not become The Weekend Animals (although … that is tempting), but this one I have to share: foxes on a trampoline. Come on! (Thanks Holly!)
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From the cute to the strange: the Nudibranch Blue Dragon.
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Stay tuned - more links tomorrow! And don't forget to send your submissions if you find links of your own to FlossyLinks@gmail.com. Plus, for other oddities throughout the week (and a lot of sports and TV talk) you can also follow me on Twitter.

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Also on Mental Floss:

DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes.
He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)